Mantis#1685. Thank you kindly, Mjm for a patch that:

The attached patch tries to read the SVN revision from local file 
"svn_revision" before checking "../.svn/entries".
This allows simulators not running from the source tree to properly 
display the SVN revision, if the installer generates the 
"svn_revision" file.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/OpenSim/Framework/Servers/BaseOpenSimServer.cs b/OpenSim/Framework/Servers/BaseOpenSimServer.cs
index 62177a6..dac784e 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Framework/Servers/BaseOpenSimServer.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Framework/Servers/BaseOpenSimServer.cs
@@ -230,13 +230,24 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers
             string buildVersion = string.Empty;
 
             // Add subversion revision information if available
+            // Try file "svn_revision" in the current directory first, then the .svn info.
+            // This allows to make the revision available in simulators not running from the source tree.
             // FIXME: Making an assumption about the directory we're currently in - we do this all over the place
             // elsewhere as well
+            string svnRevisionFileName = "svn_revision";
             string svnFileName = "../.svn/entries";
             string inputLine;
             int strcmp;
 
-            if (File.Exists(svnFileName))
+            if (File.Exists(svnRevisionFileName))
+            {
+                StreamReader RevisionFile = File.OpenText(svnRevisionFileName);
+                buildVersion = RevisionFile.ReadLine();
+                buildVersion.Trim();
+                RevisionFile.Close();
+            }
+
+            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(buildVersion) && File.Exists(svnFileName))
             {
                 StreamReader EntriesFile = File.OpenText(svnFileName);
                 inputLine = EntriesFile.ReadLine();